easiest way to beat ante 12?

[XP]

I beat gold stack several time now. But I always fail to stomp ante 12, and it's not even close.

gimme tips for deck, joker synergy, and strat (maybe like priority buy on shop, timing to skip or attend shop, switching joker on early, mid, and late game). thank you.

[kone]

Blueprint + Burglar is one of the best combos to scale and make money to get strong.
Blueprint + DNA for making a bunch of steels is consistent to get at least ante 12.
Campfire is good for brute forcing the last few antes.
Sneaking Mr. Bones all the way to ante 12 is cheeky but I've seen people do it.

Hieroglyph is amazing anytime past ante 8 since you can scale.
Clearance Sale, Overstock and Reroll Surplus are often better than picking up Grabber and Paintbrush since you can manipulate a run better. However don't hesitate to pick up either of them if you go down a route like Hieroglyph or Ectoplasm.

Since you'll be playing on White Stake, any of Abandoned, Anaglyph and Plasma Deck just stomp ante 8 no problem.
It's just about getting that run where you have a Blueprint or a Brainstorm on something good. Lots of jokers function really well now because of the lower difficulty, so you don't have to floor it all the way to Ante 8.

Certificate is one of the best utility jokers out there since ALL seals are good now and you can put enhancements on them right away.
Hanging Chad is valuable because it benefits so many effects and turns Wee Joker into a monster.
Space Joker functions very well across the run when stakes are low.
Constellation can be what takes you far and beyond the other XMult jokers if you have a shop decked out in vouchers and the eco to support it.

[AltPlusF4]

All of my Ante 12 wins are with high card plays, steel kings in hand, Baron, Troubadour to hold more kings, Blueprint, and Mime to re-trigger all those steel kings multiple times.

Using DNA to get more Kings to start out with or using Death tarot, Playing Card is also really nice for both earning $$$ and thinning out the deck early on.

One other critical factor is having a planet engine like blue seals. By the time you power up high card enough, you won't need chip scaling anymore, +mult is usually taken care of, and all you need is the xMult from previously mentioned Jokers.

Truth be told, I've only had maybe a handful of runs like this because you never know what kind of Jokers you're gonna end up with, but when the planets align...it's glorious.

[TimTim3000]

ZainoTV has a good video on how to get high scores and beat high antes. Using his tips I finally managed a run that got scores in the billions necessary to get to ante 13.

The particular way I did it was to make a lot of Steel cards and a lot of Lucky cards and level up High Card hand. Then I would play a single Lucky card which would get retriggered by Hanging Chad and I had up to 7 Steel cards in my hand (if the draws went well) being retriggered by Mime, which I also had Blueprinted. Obviously getting the right jokers (I had DNA in addition to the ones mentioned) and tarots is enormously helpful in pulling off a strat like this, so there's a lot of luck involved too. And of course the way I did is by far not the only way.

Probably most importantly though I used Plasma deck, which I've recently become a big fan of. Not sure super-high scores are even possible without it.

[XP]

Thanks !!! I see particular pattern needed from all above tips here. might try it.

[malogoss]

Plasma deck.
Mime.
Baron.
Kings.
Profit.

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[Teie]

I can get to Ante 12 quite regularly with Anaglyph deck. You use the double tag to either earn a lot of money (to reroll as much as you want) or (more desirable) get a lot of free negative jokers.

[Chen]

wanted to shout out to all the guys contributing to this thread, I've been looking for tips to hit past 12 too and finally got onto Ante 16, which I think I probably could've gone higher!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3243854580

[Crane]

mine is way simple. everytime iv won which is only 3, i had a holographic joker thats an egg that just goes up in money +50chips and the other joker that raises mult depending on how much your jokers are worth